Writer Yann Moix said that he cannot be attracted to women in their 50s, and people are condemning him, claiming he has an obligation to be attracted to them.

You might as well demand that a homosexual be attracted to people not of the same sex. Or that a heterosexual be attracted to people that are of the same sex. There is no arguing about tastes. If we respect people's right to say no, we should not rebuke them when they do.

Of course, many people (especially men, but not only) despise those they find unattractive. That is a mean way to treat people who haven't done anything wrong.

But being unattracted by someone is not the same as despising per. Yann Moix understands this.

Treating prisoners with utmost possible harshness and suspicion creates more crime.

Guatemala's Supreme Court says that the president cannot expel UN corruption investigators.

The US military is resisting supervision to the extent that the official public list of US military bases says nothing about Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Niger, Tunisia, Cameroon or Somalia.

The US is bombing more in Syria, and telling us less about it.

Oxford students call for prohibiting advocacy of the traditional Catholic position on homosexuality, calling it "harassment".

I disagree totally with the idea that sex should be limited to attempts to procreate. It is just the opposite: procreation makes more burden for the Earth, whereas sex, when it makes the participants happy and assuming precautions against conception and spreading disease, is good.

But even though I disagree thoroughly with those views, I defend the right to advocate them.